Word: shooter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evelyn Wood, now demoted to an advisor to the closed corporation, is the official party priestess. She is a trouble-shooter, spending time in cities where the sales are down and managing institutes which open in big important cities for the first few weeks. It is her duty to instill in students a blind unquestioning faith in the party dogma. When a student told Mrs. Wood during the first lesson that she doubted she would ever read very fast, Mrs. Wood admonished her with "young lady, if there is any doubt in your mind about ultimate success, I promise...
Despite his height, Barry is hardly a giant by pro standards; although he collects his share of "garbage" points at close range, he is also an accurate outside shooter, leads all N.B.A. players with a record of 88% at the free-throw line. (Chamberlain, by contrast, has hit on only 38%.) Rick perfected his long-range shooting in off-season practice sessions with his wife Pamela, the daughter of Miami Coach Bruce Hale. "We played a game against each other," he says. "I would only shoot from 20 or 25 ft. out, and Pam would take shots from closer...
...suffocated. After mulling it over for weeks, he set out from his home early one morning last week with a brown paper bag containing 200 ft. of nylon cord, a package of big plastic sandwich bags, two hunting knives and, for good measure, a .22-cal., single-action six-shooter that his parents had given...
Brown's forward line is awesome: Left wing Vic deJong is a masterful dribbler and shooter, who was relegated to the second All-Ivy team as a sophomore last year only because Harvard winger Charlie Njoku led the loop in scoring...
After a formal White House dinner, the New York City Center Light Opera Company regaled the 180 guests in the East Room with songs from Broadway musicals-including Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat, a number from Guys and Dolls sung by that inveterate crap-shooter and horse player, Nicely-Nicely Johnson. Not to be outdone, Imelda rose during a reception for the U.S. President at the Shoreham Hotel the following night and sang Because of You in her native Tagalog, aiming every inflection at a radiant Lyndon Johnson...